Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though he had heard quite a bit about Finchden Manor− school for maladjusted boys 25 miles southwest of Canterbury−the London Times correspondent was hardly prepared for the frail, abstracted man who runs it. "What is the curriculum?" asked the correspondent...
...Stassen may not hope to really achieve much except give Mr. Nixon a few uneasy moments and perhaps the Republican Party a bit of trouble. Everybody knows that Stassen is interested only in one man in the universe and that fellow is Harold Stassen himself. No doubt he had his eye on the very job that Nixon landed...
...that I was not in my heart satisfied that violence was the positive action by which we were appointed to carry out the future of our country. There was in me a perplexity, a mixed confusion of the factors of nationalism and religion, faith and doubt, knowledge and ignorance. Bit by bit, the thought of political assassination which had inflamed my imagination was losing its fire and its value in my eyes as the decisive instrument...
...masterly bit of total recall, Widmark identifies his hosts as Nazi war criminals. Instead of telling them that if they would just go home everything would be forgiven, Widmark and Jane plunge into the jungle, pursued by the Nazis and their venomous wolf pack. The villains should have known better. Widmark kills the first Nazi with a homemade crossbow, the second with a lucky bullet, and the third by running him down in his own airplane. Jane has her story. Widmark can write again. They're in love. All that is needed is someone to wake the audience...
...their own lots to make up for sagging new-car profits. A good used auto often brings a dealer as much profit as a factory-fresh '56 model. Said one Boston Ford dealer: "You take a car that we buy for $1,000. We fix it up a bit, then sell it for $1,200 to $1,250. Our profit runs $100 to $150. That's about as good as we've been doing on our new cars...